Sentence examples for contested match from inspiring English sources

It was a tightly contested match which was won by Jones in a controversial unanimous decision.

That was one hell of a finish to a fiercely contested match.

McIlroy eventually did likewise in what was a more evenly contested match, against Boo Weekley.

A sharply contested match is decided by three second-half goals for the home team.

Scandalously it took until the 16th hole of this keenly contested match for Na to be jostled along by officials.

It was a decisive intervention from Koeman that turned the course of this typically fiercely contested match with Tony Pulis's West Brom.

In 1969, President L Arellanoo led his country in what came to be known as the "soccer war" against El Salvador, because the two countries were then playing hotly contested matches to determine which nation would advance to the World Cup.

Rangers first played Celtic in 1888, and games between the two teams (collectively known as the "Old Firm") are fiercely contested matches, which sometimes cross over into fan violence.

This conflict broke out shortly after the two countries had played three bitterly contested matches in the World Cup competition, but the real causes for the war lay elsewhere.

The demands of a schedule like that — a dozen or more hotly contested matches over the course of three weeks (in three different states) — are beyond what is ever asked of any professional or collegiate team.

Bad blood has bubbled between these sides since their bitterly contested matches of the 1970s and there was a large police presence at Selhurst Park in an effort to keep any animosity under control.